site
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#286
in French word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
site is aFrenchnoun. It means: Situation du lieu ou du terrain où s’élèvent une ville, un village, une station, un monument, etc., manière dont l’objet géographique se situe dans le lieu qu’il occupe par rapport à son environnem... Pronounced \sit\. It ranks #286 in French word frequency. Often confused with st and six.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | site |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sit\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #286 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for site is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sit\. Corpus data places it at rank #286 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for site, with forms such as "iste", "siet", and "sitte". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "st", "six", "stp", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is site, spelled S-I-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Situation du lieu ou du terrain où s’élèvent une ville, un village, une station, un monument, etc., manière dont l’objet géographique se situe dans le lieu qu’il occupe par rapport à son environnement immédiat.
- 2Partie pittoresque d’un paysage.
- 3Ensemble de contenus, fichiers, pages, documents et d’applications placés sous une même autorité et accessibles par la toile à partir d’une même adresse universelle, typiquement un site web.
- 4Position sur une molécule ou sur une surface où à lieu une réaction, une adsorption, ou quelconque autre interaction chimique ou physique. S'utilise particulièrement pour les réactions catalytiques et enzymatiques.
- 5Site de pratique.
- 6Synonyme d’élévation : angle formé entre la ligne de visée (ou la ligne de mire) et l’horizontale.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: iste,siet,sitte,ssite,stie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for site
Misspelling Variants of "site"
Frequency rank: #286 in French
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